8 Valentine's Day activities for toddlers & preschoolers

Valentines Day is known to be the most romantic day of the year. A day to share your feelings with others and tell them how much you love them. Have a go at some of these fun Valentines Day activities with the kids to help celebrate 14 February.

Valentine’s Day is known to be the most romantic day of the year.

A day to share your feelings with others and tell them how much you love them.

8 Valentine's Day activities for toddlers & preschoolers

Have a go at some of these fun Valentine’s Day activities with your toddler or preschooler to help celebrate 14 February this year.

1. Make Valentine's cards

Make your Valentine’s cards with your toddler or preschooler and send or give them to the people you love.

2. Make Valentine's Day decorations

Make heart-shaped paper chains and decorate the house or your kids bedroom.

3. Make Valentine's Day cupcakes

Toddlers and preschoolers love baking! Make and decorate some yummy chocolate cupcakes for the special people in your life and decorate them with red or pink icing.

4. Find some Valentine's Day treasures

Take your toddler or preschooler for a walk to find some 'treasures' for the special people in their life.

Perhaps find some rocks and take them home to paint and decorate with red hearts.

5. Organise a Valentine's Day picnic

Organise a picnic in the park or at the beach, or perhaps a morning or afternoon tea instead, and spend time with your toddler or preschooler and others in your family.

6. Make Valentine's love hearts

Make love hearts using sun melted crayons! Just place old crayon pieces in heart-shaped baking molds and leave in the sun to melt and create new heart-shaped crayons.

7. Paint a Valentine's Day picture

Get your toddler or preschooler to paint a picture full of red roses. Just cut the bottom off a head of celery and use it as a stamp.

Dip the cut edges of the celery bottom into red paint and press it onto plain paper to create your rose heads.

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